Realistic Love And Depressing Love In Poems

The different types of love I am looking at are realistic love and depressing love, sonnet 130 is a love poem by William Shakespeare in his poem he is being very realistic and honest. The setting of the poem looks to be negative but at the same time, he is also showing that love is not always perfect. Rhyming is throughout the poem. It is a flowing poem with easy rhythm.

Unlike most love poems Shakespeare describes his having black wires coming from her head and it comes across as Shakespeare is trying to offend his mistress but he’s also being realistic about his love and using imagery to describe their love, he reverses these ideas so that they sound honest and unattractive about his mistress. Usually when poets describe their loved ones as having lips as red as coral whereas Shakespeare describes his loved one as her lips aren’t as red as coral and that her cheeks aren’t rosy the last two lines are different from the rest of the poem as they rhyme and they stand out to stand out a point that his love for his mistress is not a pretty description how he describes her good traits in a negative way. Shakespeare is being realistic and honest about his love poem but it also shows us that it is still beautiful when love is honest.

The second poem is his coy mistress by Andrew Marvell this is a more persuasive and lustful poem as Andrew Marvell tries to convince his mistress to sleep with him by sweet-talking to her and trying to trick her trying to convince her. For example by describing the many years it would take to fall in love with her and appreciate each part of her. He is trying to scare her into sleeping with him. He ends with the poem ‘thus though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run as. The poem concludes he is persuading her that they should sleep together right away, they have no time to lose he ends with no apologies for the way he described his love, and the structure remains the same throughout the whole poem. During the first stanza, marvel says that he would focus on each part of her body until he got to the heart, which is a metaphor for having sex with her. And then goes on saying that life is to short and they shouldn’t wait and they don’t have time and they’re about to die and says that worms are going to take her virginity in her coffin if she doesn’t have sex with him.

The third poem is funeral blues written by W.H Aden in 1936 shows a funeral scenario when he expresses his sadness over his loved one and followed by past memories. This poem is one of the sadder and depressing one and talks about death, grief, and losing a loved one and how nothing really matters to him anymore after the passing of this particular person. The poem ends with how nothing really matters to him anymore. This person is feeling like his world has been destroyed and shows lots of emotions, sadness and pain. There’s a lot of symbolism used in this poem for example like when the writer said “ stop all the clocks’ and “silence the pianos’ these lines symbolize how the death has affected him and is showing a lot of denial and grief. There are a lot of sad and blunt words such as ‘stop’, ‘silence’ and ‘cut off’ have a negative impact and make the poem dull. Along with colours in the poem such as ‘black’. ‘Blue’ these represents a pretty cold and depressing emotion. In the last verse words like “dismantle” “pour away”, “pack up” shows isolation and separation and shows that he is clearly upset by what has happened.

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, his coy mistress by Andrew Marvell and funeral blues by W.H Aden. All three of these poems are very different to each other but all compared through the similarities and differences, techniques used, poetic devices used.